Manual bookkeeping apparatus



June 10, 1941.

J. E. ROSSO MANUAL BOOKKEEPING APPfiRATUS Filed May 24, 1940 [ill INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented June 10, 1941 UNHTED STATES FFICE MANUAL BOOKKEEPING APPARATUS John Bosso, Virginia, Minn. Application May 24 1940, Serial No. 337,016

6 Claims.

the areas in which such indicia is to be applied. v Still other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description of the invention.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing forming part of this application and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure l is a broken elevation of the clamping bar side of one of the devices embodying the invention with the line and column guide partly elevated.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22, Figure l,

Figure 3 is a broken plan view of the slidably adjustable members on the clamping bar with the line and column guide in horizontal position.

Inasmuch as the instant invention resides in improvements in that part of the mechanism associated with the clamping bar it is not considered essential to show a plan of the entire platform of the mechanism, it being deemed sufficient to illustrate the edge view of such board, which is indicated at l, in Figures 1 and 2, and in this instance it is contemplated to use arelatively thin sheet of rigid board like material suitable for the purpose and resting preferably upon a plurality of rubber supports indicated at 2.

The clamping member or bar in this instance is preferably made of two vertically spaced metal members indicated at 3 and 4, they being held separated as by suitable blocks 5 at either end thereof and attached to same as byl screws indicated at 6, and which blocks in conjunction with those indicated at I attached below the corners of the board I answer as supports for the pivotal connections 9 and ID at either end of the bar, which in all respects functions identically with the clamping bar illustrated in my r copending application supra.

The principal novel feature of this invention residing in the pivotally mounted line and column guide, will first be described in detail. The pivotal support for this guiding member is illustrated at H and I2 upon opposite sides of the outer wall or side member l3 of the carriage for such guide, and the body of the carriage is illustrated at It, it being slidably disposed intermediate of the two members 3 and 4 of the clamp bar.

The correct alinement of the carriage with the spaced rows of pegs indicated at I5 and fixed to the board I is preferably determined as by the spring controlled ball It installed within the body is of the carriage and which ball automatically retards the movement of the carriage consecutively as the same is slid up and down on the clamping bar.

The member i3 of the carriage is provided with the two upstanding spaced portions I! which provide bearings for the pivotal connections ll and l2 of the line and column guide support I8, the guide proper including the members i9, 29, and the wires 2!. Intermediate of the spaced members I'l-l'l extends outwardly and upwardly the member 23 which is formed integral with the member [8 and functions as means for raising the line and column guide to for example the position indicated in dotted lines, Figure 2 of the drawing, or in Figure 1 as it is there shown only partly raised.

The line and column guide comprises the principal supporting member l9 which is preferably formed integral with the angular portion l8 which normally extends up over the clamping bar and forms the connection with the carriage for adjustment thereof, and is designed to lie horizontally on the member I for application of the figures upon said sheet through the spaces intermediate of the horizontal and vertical wires 2|, the end member 24 of the guide being also preferably integral with the member i9 while the member 20 is preferably of transparent material such as Celluloid or the like through which any indicia upon the sheet receiving the figures may be readily seen. This, of course, is provided, like the members i9 and 25, with through holes 25 in which the wires 2| are strung as desired to form the necessary spacing in which the figures or entry are made manually.

It is to be noted that the body portion 14 of the guide carriage is provided with an extension 26 in which is fixed the thin pointer 21 extending forwardly and just above the member l9 of the line and column guide, and in this relation it at all times remains, it moving with the carriage as the latter is adjusted. This pointer is sufficiently arched to freely pass over the like pointer 28 on the carriage indicated at 29, and this carriage is also slidable longitudinally and intermediate of the members 3 and 4 of the clamping bar. It is to be noted that both the carriages l4 and 29 are preferably operated as by suitable handle-like members 30 and 3| respectively and in this instance I have shown the adjustment of the clamping bar as being accomplished by the relatively short and neat handle 32 fixed to one of the lower pivotal shafts ID of the links 33 which adjustably support the clamping bar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Manual bookkeeping apparatus comprising in combination a backing board to receive a plurality of separate loose-leaf blank bookkeeping forms perforated along one edge, a row of pegs carried by said board to receive the perforated side of said forms and hold same in predetermined relationship to other forms on the board, a movable clamping bar attached to said board and engageable with said forms upon one side of said pegs, and a combined column and line guide slidably supported by said clamp bar for designating on the other side of said pegs a space in which an entry may be made on any or all of said forms, said column and line guide being arched to extend over said pegs so that it may be moved without contacting said pegs, and including a plurality of spaced intersecting flexible wires between which indicia may be manually placed on said forms.

2. Manual bookkeeping apparatus comprising in combination a backing board to receive a plurality of separate loose-leaf blank bookkeeping forms perforated along one edge, a row of pegs carried by said board to receive the perforated side of said forms and hold same in predetermined relationship to other forms on the board, a combined column and line guide slidably supported upon said board, means cooperative with said slidable support for temporarily holding same at predetermined equally spaced stations, said column and line guide including a transparent frame and a plurality of intersecting flexible wires therein between which indicia may be manually placed on said forms.

3. Manual bookkeeping apparatus comprising in combination a backing board to receive a. plurality of separate loose-leaf blank bookkeeping forms perforated along one edge, a row of pegs carried by said board to receive the perforated side of said forms and hold same in predetermined relationship to other forms on the board, a combined column and line guide, consisting of a transparent frame and intersecting fiezn'ble wires, slidably supported upon said board, said slidable support including a pivotal mounting for said column and line guide whereby said guide may be pivotally moved to or from said forms.

4. The combination with a manual bookkeeping apparatus of the class described having a movable clamping bar, of a combined column and line guide slidably and pivotally supported by said bar, said guide consisting of a transparent frame and a plurality of spaced intersecting flexible wires between which entries on a bookkeeping form may be manually made.

5. A manual bookkeeping apparatus of the class described having a movable clamping bar, a combined column and line guide carried by said bar for application to a record sheet, characterized by said guide including an open mesh wire structure longitudinally thereof through which indicia may be made upon said record sheet.

6. A manual bookkeeping apparatus of the class described including a clamping bar and a combined column and line guide, the latter being applicable to a blank record sheet and characterized by being'of a transparent frame like structure with the space surrounded by said frame traversed by somewhat flexible wires in opposite directions to simulate line and column spaces in which indicia may be made uniformly upon said sheet intermediate of said wires.

JOHN E. ROSSO. 

